QUESTION 1

While both sides of the brain communicate with each other so that we can seamlessly perform most functions, in that communication the ______________ is more responsible for control of spatial recognition than the ______________.

a. Left hemisphere, right hemisphere.

b. Right hemisphere, left hemisphere.

c. Corpus callosum, right hemisphere.

d. Corpus callosum, left hemisphere.

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QUESTION 2

As you read a chapter on psychology, you frequently ask yourself “why” questions—such as “Why would that be true?”—as well as relating this new information with your own experiences involving your own “memory.” You are using _________ to help you remember the information in this chapter.

a. Elaborative encoding.

b. Constructive processing.

c. Maintenance rehearsal.

d. Reintegration.

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QUESTION 3

Your instructor is lecturing in class when security knocks on the door. The instructor goes to the door, gets the note from security, and gives it to a student, who exits the classroom. The instructor looks at the class and asks, “Now where was I in the lecture notes?” This situation illustrates how __________ affects short-term memory.

a. Encoding.

b. Priming.

c. Chunking.

d. Interference.

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QUESTION 4

Many of the addictive drugs activate the same pleasure centers as are activated by food and sex. Many of the pleasure centers are located in the:

a. Hypothalamus.

b. Medulla.

c. Cerebellum.

d. Corpus callosum.

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QUESTION 5

_________ is unconsciously pushing unwanted memories out of awareness, while __________ is the conscious effort to keep memories from awareness.

Suppression, repression.

Repression, suppression.

Reintegration, constructive processing.

Constructive processing, reintegration.

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QUESTION 6

According to the serial position effect, you are most likely to forget the _________ items on a list.

a. First.

b. Middle.

c. Last.

d. First and last.

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QUESTION 7

The most accurate conclusion that can be drawn from research on the brain is that:

a. Normal people can be taught to use one hemisphere at a time.

b. Most people use the right hemisphere more often than the left hemisphere.

c. Only creative people can use both hemispheres simultaneously.

d. The activities of both hemispheres of the brain combine to produce most behaviors.

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QUESTION 8

Information in neurons usually flows in what order?

a. Soma, dendrites, axon.

b. Dendrites, soma, axon.

c. Dendrites, myelin, axon terminals.

d. Axon, soma, axon terminals.

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QUESTION 9

Research shows that people who learned a list of words while in a happy mood recalled them better when they were again happy. People who learned the list while sad remembered best when they were again sad. This illustrates:

a. State-dependent learning.

b. Eidetic imagery.

c. Repression.

d. Regressive imagery.

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QUESTION 10

By altering metabolism, the __________ gland can have a sizable effect on personality, with overactivity of this gland causing excitability and nervousness and underactivity of this gland causing one to be lethargic and sleepy:

a. Pineal.

b. Thyroid.

c. Adrenal.

d. Pituitary.

 

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